Non-target school#79 of 100
Is Binghamton University a Target School for Investment Banking?
Binghamton University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #79 of the 100 schools we measure: 65 alumni list investment banking analyst titles alongside the 18 top banks from classes of roughly 2015 onward, weighted for school size, and its wider banking alumni network holds 345 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #79 of 100
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 65 77% since 2020
- At the elite five
- 22 34% of top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 345 #87 by profiles
- Profiles per 1,000 undergrads
- 23.9 #84 per capita
- US-based
- 316 92%
A rank below 60 puts the odds against you without ending your chances: every school on this list has placed analysts into the top banks. Plan on cold email volume that feels unreasonable and a resume built from early finance internships. The students who make it from this tier start earlier and follow up longer than everyone they are competing against.
What the numbers say
Binghamton ranks #77 on top-bank alumni while sitting at #79 overall, a two-place gap that leaves the headline resting squarely on the analyst record. 65 alumni who graduated in 2013 or later are matched to the 18 top banks by an investment banking analyst title tracked here, with 50 of them finishing school in 2018 or later.
An #87 network by size still lands #79 overall on actual analyst seats: 345 IB profiles across 14,409 undergraduates works out to 23.9 per 1,000 undergraduates against a median of 97.8, ranking #84 per capita. 22 of the 65 analysts, or 34 percent, are at the elite five. 92 percent of profiles are US-based, and hedge funds are the strongest vertical at #52, with 17 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles.
That elite share is on the low side, so most of these analysts sit across the broader group of large banks rather than the elite five. The count is still 65 people, which is a substantial working base for a school positioned this far down the headline ranking, and the recent skew suggests it is still being added to.
Across finance
Binghamton University’s rank in each vertical we count, by the same title-phrase method. Bars show its count as a share of that ranking’s #1 school.
Nearby in the ranking
How we counted
Counts come from People Data Labs, which aggregates public professional profiles. The headline rank is anchored on the strict measure: profiles that list Binghamton Universityin their education, a job title containing “investment banking analyst”, one of 18 named top banks as an employer, and a graduation year of 2013 or later — the analyst classes of roughly 2015 onward, deduplicated across banks. Those conditions hold on the profile rather than on a single job, so the title and the bank are usually but not provably the same role. The rank weights that count at two-thirds and the same count per 1,000 undergraduates at one-third, so school size is priced in. The elite-five figure counts analysts at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview. Data pulled 2026-08-25.
The alumni-network figure is broader: everyone who has held a title containing “investment banking” at any firm worldwide, across all years, including graduate alumni. It reads as the size of the school’s banking network rather than a single era’s placement. Of those, 316 (92%) are currently based in the United States and 29 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 14,409 total undergraduates reported for fall 2023 in the NCES IPEDS Fall Enrollment dataset — a school-size comparison, not a placement rate for a graduating class.
